CHARACTER PROFILE
Nikola Tesla
- Primary work
- The Lives of Eccentrics
- Occupation
- Inventor↗
Nikola Tesla (ニコラ・テスラ, Nikora Tesura) is the protagonist of The Genius Who Made Edison Cower: Nikola Tesla, the first episode of The Lives of Eccentrics.
He is a Serbian-American inventor. He is well known for his genius as well as for his many eccentricities.
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Original image ↗ · Archived image ↗01Basic information
02Appearance
03Personality
Nikola Tesla is normally a shy, reserved, and non-confrontational person.↗
He exhibits great passion for his work. That passion, as well as Tesla's genius, is the driving force of his career as an inventor.↗
Tesla is known to be quite an eccentric man. But with time his eccentricities had grown into manias and obsessions: his shyness changed into hatred of other people, he became neurotic and irritable, and gained a crippling fear of dirtiness and germs. The phobia of smooth round objects that was already present throughout his life turned into intense fear. At some point he no longer could enjoy his meals without shining all the plates and utensils using exactly 18 napkins as well as measuring each dish.↗↗
04Abilities
Intelligence
Nikola Tesla is considered to be one of the greatest geniuses in history. Among his many contributions to science are the discovery of high voltage electricity, the invention of the Tesla transformer, the alternating current motor, the basis of computers, wireless communication, solar energy systems, radar devices, and automatons. Tesla achieved this status mainly due to his passion and natural talents as opposed to hard work.↗
Photographic Memory
Nikola Tesla has an ability to accurately remember anything that he ever looked at. This is incredibly useful for his career as it allows him to recreate any machine by briefly looking at its blueprint as well as making a blueprint of a machine that he had only seen once.↗
05Story
SPOILERS
Background
Nikola Tesla was born in Yugoslavia in 1856.↗
When Nikola Tesla was a child, he was confronted by bullies when they were visiting him at his house. While Niko was showing them his inventions, one of the boys broke one of them. When Tesla prosted, the bullies, knowing about his phobia of round shiny objects, forced him to look at an egg, making Tesla throw up. Later, when one of the bullies was using an outhouse, Tesla rolled a snowball down the hill towards the outhouse.↗
The Genius Who Made Edison Cower: Nikola Tesla
In 1884, at the age of 28, Nikola Tesla moves to the United States of America, where becomes a staff member at the Edison Company. As his first task Edison tells Tesla to fix two generators and gives him a week, while expecting him to be done in no less than two weeks. To his surprise, Nikola Tesla completes the job in a mere six hours.↗
While Tesla is making a test model for an alternating current motor he's approached by Edison, demanding to know what he's doing. After Tesla explains it to him, Edison breaks the test model and calls the alternating current dangerous, comparing it to lightning. Tesla refuses to abandon his idea, so Edison takes out a billiard ball, shoves it in Tesla's face, and fires him.↗
After being fired from the Edison Company, Tesla is short on money and has trouble with finding employment as Edison spreads derogatory rumors about him. Tesla's mental state significantly worsens, and he becomes more neurotic and irritable.↗
In 1893, Nikola Tesla, who hadn't been publicly seen for several years, appears at the Chicago World's Fair illuminated by lights that he invented. Tesla himself is sitting on the stage at the American pavilion calmly reading a book, while surrounded by sparks of electricity. He explains to the astounded audience that the alternating current is completely safe at low voltage, disproving Edison’s derogatory claims and redeeming himself and the alternating current in the eyes of the public.↗
In 1898, in New York, he performs an experiment before the press where he attempts to split a block of steel in half using small vibrations. To the astonishment of the present journalists, Tesla's machine succeeds while also causing significant tremors in the surrounding area, causing chaos and panic among people nearby.↗
Along with his dislike of humans, Tesla's eccentricities continue to get worse. Tesla also eventually stops making inventions that would be useful for people with his ideas becoming increasingly bizarre.↗
At some point, Tesla starts dating a woman named Anne Morgan. One day, having forgotten about Tesla's phobia, she goes on a date with him wearing pearl earrings. After seeing the earrings, Tesla refuses to meet her again, and stays single for the rest of his life.↗
A year after the pigeon's death, Nikola Tesla loses everything he had. He is eventually found dead in his room, having passed away peacefully.↗↗
07Sources & attribution
- Nikola Tesla
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Source bibliography (1)
- The Lives of Eccentrics Episode 1: The Genius Who Made Edison Cower: Nikola Tesla Open ↗
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